Emmanuelle
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Director: Just Jaeckin
1974 / 89min / DCP
Based on the steamy bestseller by Thai-French novelist Emmanuelle Arsan, photographer-turned-director Jaeckin’s sophisticated softcore hit made Kristel an overnight sensation in the title role, playing the sexually adventurous wife of a permissive French diplomat stationed in Thailand, where her single-minded hedonistic pursuit of pleasure with both men and women will lead her from the comfortable homes of the expat community to the opium dens and boxing rings of Bangkok, under the tutelage of erotic connoisseur Alain Cuny. “[Kristel] projects a certain vulnerability that makes several of the scenes work… [she] actually seems to be present in the film, and as absorbed in its revelations as we are.”—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Intro by Jeremy Richey, author of Sylvia Kristel: From Emmanuelle to Chabrol Sunday, September 25
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